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No need to distribute or
install or configure the Borland Database Engine
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No need to configure ODBC or
worry about ODBC settings or library versions
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No need to buy the C/S or
Enterprise editions of Delphi and C++Builder
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No TTable, TQuery or BDE
code overhead. These components run much faster
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Optimized for application
deployment. You can bundle SA with your application, with
no need for any system paths, registry settings or
Windows system DLLs
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Supports SA’s personal
engine, server engine and runtime engine
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About 100K smaller
executables (without the BDE)
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Easy to program using
boolean return values to indicate success or failure
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Optional raise of
exceptions
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Optional short name field
reference, using Query1['MyField'] instead of
Query1.FieldByName('MyField').AsString. Useful in large
calculations when many fields are referenced
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Supports many SA features
not supported by either BDE or ODBC
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Supports SA callbacks,
translated into VCL events
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Column defaults, including
auto-incremental columns, are automatically visible to
the client after a row insert. No need to refresh the
query after appending a new row
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Supports BLOBs. Also those
>32K
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Supports live server
cursors
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Supports data-aware
components (TDBEdit, TDBGrid etc.)
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Supports accurate scrollbar
record positioning (TDBGrid scrollbars)
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Supports popular 3rd party
data access components including Orpheus, InfoPower,
Report Builder, Shazam, ASTA and CGIExpress
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